Psychology Jeopardy Game

Consciousness

100

This sleep stage is when most vivid dreams occur, and the body experiences temporary paralysis.

What is REM sleep?

200

This 24-hour cycle regulates sleep, body temperature, and other biological processes.

What is the circadian rhythm?

300

This common sleep disorder involves repeated interruptions in breathing during sleep.

What is sleep apnea?

400

This altered state of consciousness can be induced by suggestion and may help with pain, anxiety, or habit change.

What is hypnosis?

500

This sleep disorder causes people to suddenly fall asleep, often at inappropriate times.

What is narcolepsy?

Research Methods & Experiments

100

This famous psychologist conducted an unethical experiment testing obedience of authority by utilizing electric shocks and participant deception.

Who is Stanley Milgram?

200

This psychologist’s famous experiment on authority cast students in the roles of prisoners and prison guards.

Who is Philip Zimbardo?

300

This type of research method observes and records behavior without interfering.

What is naturalistic observation?

400

In an experiment, this variable is manipulated by the researcher.

What is the independent variable?

500

This is a fake treatment used in experiments to test the effects of expectation.

What is a placebo?

The Brain

100

This region of the brain that is important in motor control, latin for "little brain"

What is the cerebellum

200

The retrograde type of this condition applies to events prior to a head injury. Anterograde to events after it.

What is amnesia

300

This set of brain structures helps regulate emotion and memory, some of the structures include: the hippocampus, amygdala, hypothalamus, and the basal Ganglia.

What is the limbic system?

400

Chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses.

What is a neurotransmitter?

500

This type of aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce language (think Tell-Tale Brain!)

What is Broca's aphasia

Personality

100

This Big Five trait measures how outgoing, energetic, and sociable someone is.

What is extraversion?

200

This psychologist developed the hierarchy of needs, placing self-actualization at the top.

Who is Abraham Maslow?

300

This Big Five trait describes how responsible, organized, and dependable someone is.

What is conscientiousness?

400

This personality test uses inkblots to analyze a person’s inner thoughts and feelings.

What is the Rorschach test?

500

According to Freud, this part of the mind operates on the “pleasure principle.”

What is id?

Do You Know Your Teacher?

100

Tr. Talia studied abroad in this country, and got to visit a middle school to see what kinds of classes they taught there.

What is Japan?

200

Tr. Talia is a member of this generation, named for the last letter in the alphabet.

What is Gen Z?

300

Tr. Talia knew she wanted to pursue this field of psychology when she took Intro to Psych in college.

What is School Psychology?

400

Tr. Talia has an undergraduate Psychology degree from this university.

What is Central Michigan University?

500

Teacher Talia actually uses her first name at work: this is the unspoken last name.

Who is Pulliam?